Example sentences for: politically

How can you use “politically” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • More politically sedate times didn't translate into student acquiescence, however.

  • Not coincidentally, these programs--including unemployment compensation, Social Security, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), all of which you have to work to get--have been politically unassailable, while welfare programs are either unpopular or actively despised.

  • Of course, I'd rather have Africana than not, but did they have to be so slavishly politically correct and populist?

  • But he has, instead, chosen to address the issue as an advocate for specific groups he regards as politically disadvantaged--women, gays, victims of racial-hate speech, the poor (or, at least, the not-rich), and people who are critical of market capitalism--and to design a constitutional theory that will enable those groups to enlist the state in efforts either to suppress speech they dislike or to subsidize speech they do like, without running afoul of the First Amendment.

  • Saddam is now "better off" (Al Hunt, CNN's Capital Gang ), having divided the allies (Steve Roberts, CNN's Late Edition ) and gained "a new international legitimacy" (Paul Gigot, NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). The return to the status quo ante has politically isolated the United States (Gigot; John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Second prize was awarded to Russia, for insinuating itself into the dispute and re-establishing its power base in the Middle East (Eleanor Clift and Pat Buchanan, The McLaughlin Group ). William Safire on NBC's Meet the Press moaned that the week's events marked "the beginning of the Baghdad/Moscow axis," in which the impoverished Russians would rearm the Iraqis in return for oil.


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